Horsten
Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Das reich verzierte Taufbecken wurde 1696 der Kirche gestiftet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/horsten] [accessed 22 February 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Historische St. Mauritius-Kirche in Horsten, Landkreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frisia Orientalis, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchHorsten.JPG] [accessed 22 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - looking east
![the top of the font cover is discernible at the far [east] end, right [south] side, semi-hidden by the right bank of benches](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220222006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font cover is discernible at the far [east] end, right [south] side, semi-hidden by the right bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dennis Wubs, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2007 by Dennis Wubs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4721991_Horsten.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/horsten] [accessed 22 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23776HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1696
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late), Post-Reformation
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Mauritius-Kirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Notes: previous wooden churches ca. 1000 AD; brick church built on granite base early-13thC; damaged 14thC and Thirty Years' War, with whole inventory destroyed;
Church Address: Kirchstraße 2, Horsten, 26446 Friedeburg, Germany
Site Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) road 436, in the municipality and 6-7 km E of Friedeburg, about 20 km SW of Wilhelmshaven
Additional Comments: destroyed font (medieval font [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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The entry for Horsten in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/horsten] [accessed 22 February 2022] notes and illustrates a baptismal font made of wood, a gift of 1696 [="Das reich verzierte Taufbecken wurde 1696 der Kirche gestiftet."]. The inscription, which includes the date of the donation, is painted on the side of the font cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 429746 5923129
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.452487, 7.942042
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 27′ 8.95″ N, 7° 56′ 31.35″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: the inscription is painted on the sides of the font cover
Inscription Text: "[...] EHRE ANNO 1696 [...]"
Inscription Notes: full transcription of the painted inscription not available
Inscription Source: ImagesArea
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1696
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal moulded with scroll ribs and turned finial; inscription painted on the sides